Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The Lord Howe stick insect (Dryococelus australis) was ...
For years, scientists thought that the Lord Howe Island stick insect was extinct, the subject of predation by invasive rats on the remote island off Australia, but then a few were discovered on a ...
Have you ever seen a massive bug that looks like a twig or tree branch? Probably not, because these rare insects are masters ...
Rare and endangered animals are often hidden away in hard-to-reach locations and might require trekking through a jungle or hacking through thick vegetation to catch a glimpse. Their limited ...
New Zealand has taken great strides to protect the increasingly threatened Giant Wētā, one of the heaviest insects on Earth.